Cooping was a practice in which gangs would coerce innocent bystanders into electoral fraud by getting them drunk and making them vote multiple times. It was tolerated by police officers and judges on the payroll of the candidate. Edgar Allan Poe’s death may have been a result of cooping. The practice ended in the US, […]
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) makes it easier for inventors to apply for patents in multiple countries, but does not provide international patents. Inventors can file a PCT application to indicate an intention to file patents in multiple countries, and an international authority will conduct a search to determine patentability. The process of applying for […]
